LINGUIST List 15.3137

Mon Nov 08 2004

Qs: Phonetic Italian Corpus; Idioms in Text

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1. Christina Villafana, Phonetically Transcribed Italian Corpus
2. Haider AlHassan, Idioms in Text

Message 1: Phonetically Transcribed Italian Corpus

Date: 06-Nov-2004
From: Christina Villafana <cmv2

georgetown.edu>
Subject: Phonetically Transcribed Italian Corpus

In an effort to collect phoneme frequencies in standard Italian, I'm now
looking for any type of transcribed (phonetically) Italian corpus to run
some scripts on. Does anyone out there know of such a corpus? I'd of
course prefer something that is either free or inexpensive.

Thanks in advance - I'll post a summary of responses and will eventually
publish the frequencies.

Christina Villafana
cmv2

georgetown.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Italian (Language Code: ITN)

Message 2: Idioms in Text

Date: 06-Nov-2004
From: Haider AlHassan <ulyssesquest

hotmail.com>
Subject: Idioms in Text

With Regards to all linguists,

I am conducting a research project and I need authentic modern (1990 and
above) texts (paragraphs) containing idioms, e.g., once and for all, lose
track of something, sweep something under the carpet...etc.

I have tried the internet but could only find a small amount of texts,
mostly texts from newspapers.

I am not sure if a corpus will do. I have a random sample of idioms to find
within texts.

Your help will be appreciated.

Thank you in anticipation,

Haider

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (Language Code: ENG)
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